I am trying to make an app which tracks the path of the user. I wish to use the google maps API for this. I know there is a specific "tracking API" but that is deprecated now. I used the tutorial at http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/beginners-guide-location-android but that only shows me my location. It doesn't show how to track.
I tried to use the google developers support documents, but its simply too confusing. I am a beginner, so if someone could just guide me I'd appreciate it. Kindly assume I know JUST the basics.
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Anyone has a tutorial of making LBS applications like this? I want to make an application to determine the trajectory of the city's public transport me, but I did not find his examples everywhere, if you have please help me to develop it, thank you
It is a concept design of my application layout
To develop an android app which uses Google API's would be a combination of Google Maps API, Location Api, Direction API and also Places API(if you want to fetch the details of your source and destination). If you are developing this app for a special transit system in your city than you would specifically need their own set of API to populate your app data.
But if you want to develop something with free open source Google API you can first make use of the Google Play Services by first referring into your app project and then getting the API key, enabling the direction api "ON" in your developer console and writing code.
Please refer to this tutorial in order to get a better insight of the transit system app you want to develop. You can customize you app UI accordingly once you have the data coming in.
Here are the bunch of links from Google's official documentation regarding implementation of all API's.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/directions/
https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/
Hope this would help!!
I want to use google map coordinate in my android application.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/enterprise/mapsearth/products/coordinate.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=NA-LCS-2013-Geo-Products-MapsCoordinate-HouseAds&utm_term=%2Bgoogle%20%2Bcoordinate&utm_content=SearchAd&gclid=COy759vU2LsCFVMdtAodNGYAdg
I found this example on google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.geo.enterprise.flak
I searched on internet but didn't find documentation about how to implement google coordinate in my anndoid app.
Did any one used this before? If yes can you please put links of tutorial or links of samples?
Try this link, to the Google Maps Coordinate API Client Library for Java.
Otherwise, if you want to start from scratch, it's a RESTful api. There are a number of clients and libraries that you could use, including Volley. Also, here is a tutorial for making remote calls.
You can find everything you need here.
I have done it following this official tutorial recently. The version 2 of Google Maps Android API is different from version 1 in many points.
I'm trying to understand what i'm asking for...
I googled around with no success (of course, starting from official google developer site).
The result i would like achieve is the same behavior official Maps app from Google has, choosing to "make available offline" a part of the map and saving a selected area.
Does anyone know how to do it (if possible)? Can you point me in the right direction?
Thank you!
The Maps V2 API, at this time, does not give us any ability to control offline maps.
Okay guys, I am developing an app on Android that uses the Google API to display a map on the screen. I have simple overlays that will display the location of Contacts that the user decides to track. I already know how to use the Mapping and retrieve my own location, but I need to know the best way to get other Users locations.
With the release of Google Latitude's API, this functionality was supposed to be made easy. I cannot find any tutorials or anything on how to implement the API.
Please: If you know any Tutorials or anything of the sort to teach me this, please let me know. Also, if this is not the most efficient way to go about this let me know.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Specs: Eclipse Galileo, Android SDK, Android APIs and Google API
Isn't this what the Google Latitude App already does?
http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html
There are also some docs here: http://code.google.com/apis/latitude/v1/getting_started.html
Personally, I'd start by experimenting with the REST API outside of Android to get a sense of how it works.
I was checking out the Google Maps Data API and I was wondering if I can follow their Java Development guide to use it on the Android platform? I want to display routes that I have created on Google Maps on the phone.
Ideally this would be through a MapView but if I need to do it a different way I could.
Thanks,
Rob
EDIT: I feel that my question is probably a little too open ended. I don't completely understand how the Google Data API works with Google Maps. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction but if anyone thinks that this is a bad question let me know so I can delete it.
Yes, you can, several android apps use the Maps Data API (My Tracks, for instance). However, you'll need to parse the KML returned from the maps data and then write code to add it to MapView manually.